Side Panels of DOOM!!!

Yeah, so I work at Earhart Dining Hall. I am a student associate. I usually work cleanup shift due to my abundance of 4:30-5:20 classes *cough cough* Anyway... I have worked there since the beginning of the year and I usually end up shutting down the salad bar. Now, when you shut down salad bar, you have to take out panels on the bottom and the sides. On salad bar there are two rectangular wells and the long sides have panels that have to go in a certain way. In each well, one of the long side panels has six rows of slits for ventilation and the other side has two rows of slits. When I first trained during BGR week I was told that each well had to have a six and a two, but it didn't matter which side they went on. Today, I got told, after I had finished putting everything back together and had started wiping down tables, that the six slit side panel has to go on the left side of the bar. So I had to take the entire bar back apart, because of course the side panels go on first, and switch the panels. I was rather annoyed because this was the first time I had heard of this and I hate looking dumb in front of my employers. To top it off, the supervisor who talked to me about it is not one of the ones who I generally interact with, so I feel like I have given a sub-par impression to him. Oh well, the other supervisors like me. ^_^

I'll take a shack on a rock over a castle in the sand

“American Dream”

All work no play may have made Jack a dull boy
But all work no God has left Jack with a lost soul
But he's moving on full steam
He's chasing the American dream
And he's gonna give his family finer things

“Not this time son I've no time to waste
Maybe tomorrow we'll have time to play”
And then he slips into his new BMW
And drives farther and farther and farther away

Cause he works all day and tries to sleep at night
He says things will get better;
Better in time

[Chorus]
So he works and he builds with his own two hands
And he pours all he has in a castle made with sand
But the wind and the rain are comin' crashing in
Time will tell just how long his kingdom stands
His kingdom stands

Well his American Dream is beginning to seem
More and more like a nightmare
With every passing day
"Daddy, can you come to my game?"
"Oh Baby, please don't work late."
Another wasted weekend
And they are slipping away

'Cause he works all day and lies awake at night
He tells them things are getting better
Just take a little more time

[Chorus]

He used to say, "Whoever dies with the most toys wins"
But if he loses his soul, what has he gained in the end
I'll take a shack on the rock
Over a castle in the sand

Now he works all day and cries alone at night
It's not getting any better
Looks like he's running out of time

[Chorus]

All they really wanted was you
All they really wanted was you
All they really wanted was you
[Fading]was you

by Casting Crowns

I was listening to this song today and I thought I would share it with you all. The song is a reminder not to let your pursuit of material success get in the way of your relationship with God. Though the song is meant as a reminder for Christians, it contains a message for non-Christians as well. Don’t let life pass you by. Sure it would be nice to be a millionaire or whatever, but there really isn’t any point in making money if you don’t do something worthwhile with it. Now the classification of worthwhile is different for every person, it doesn’t necessarily mean feed all the people in Ethiopia for a year or something. The point I am trying to make is that, while you are working toward whatever goals you have, examine your motives. What are you working for? When you look back on your life, would you do it over again?

These are questions I have already asked myself. I swear I’m not just trying to be preachy, they have helped me a lot in deciding what to do with my life.

On another note, since I have been philosophical with my posts lately, I promise the next one will be quite silly.